Pro dancer Pasha Pashkov is responding to Carrie Ann Inaba‘s critique after his Dancing with the Stars dance with celeb partner Danielle Fishel on last night’s episode of the reality competition show.
If you don’t know, it was Dedication Night on the show, and the pair danced a jive to honor her Boy Meets World co-star William Daniels.
The dance received a 29/40 score from the judges, with Carrie Ann Inaba revealing some criticism of the dances she’s seen from them week after week.
“I love a throwback, but I have to say this. Some of your dances are starting to feel like I’m watching the same dance over and over again. Try to give a little bit more variety as far as dynamics. This is also on you, Pasha,” Carrie Ann said to them after the dance.
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Pasha then reacted to this after, telling Variety, “I was not happy [with that comment]. I always get protective. For me, that comment felt unfair, especially being that she said that the dances looked similar. But the thing is, we did have a quickstep and we had a jive this week. These are two dances that very, very similar. If we had dances that were drastically different and they felt the same, I’d understand. But, based on the dances that we had, that did not feel like it made sense to me. In my heart, I’m overprotective because I know how hard Danielle is working. I don’t think she deserved that comment.”
Danielle also responded, sharing, “My tango was a story about me overcoming breast cancer. It was also the first episode of ‘Dancing With the Stars’ where people were being introduced to me again. There was no way I was going to do my first week and not smile and show the way I was feeling. So I had a tango where I smiled, then I had a cha-cha where I smiled, then I had a quick step where I smiled, and now tonight, I had a jive where I was smiling. She’s not wrong… All I know is next week, it’s the perfect setup for our Argentine Tango.”
Source: justjared.com